1. Megan Rice was notable for illegally entering the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the Transform Now Plowshares group.
14 Facts About Megan Rice
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The lesser charge of injuring government property was upheld by the court but Megan Rice was released within a week as the two years she had already served would be more than the re-sentencing for the upheld conviction.
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Megan Rice, born January 31,1930, was the youngest of three girls in a Catholic family of Irish descent, born and raised in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
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Megan Rice's father, Frederick W Rice, was an obstetrician-gynecologist who taught at New York University and treated patients at several New York City hospitals.
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Megan Rice's mother, Madeleine Newman Hooke Rice, was a Barnard College graduate who undertook graduate studies at Columbia University while her children were growing up, obtaining a doctorate in history and writing a dissertation on Catholic views about slavery.
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Frederick and Madeleine Megan Rice were active participants in the Catholic Worker movement and considered Dorothy Day a good friend.
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Megan Rice was educated in Catholic schools and joined the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus at age 18.
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Megan Rice was trained as an elementary school teacher and taught in the early grades in Mount Vernon, New York.
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Megan Rice then served various stints as a teacher in Nigeria and Ghana from 1962 to 2004.
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Megan Rice participated in protests against a variety of American military actions, military sites, and nuclear weapons installations.
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Megan Rice was arrested more than three dozen times in acts of civil disobedience, including her anti-nuclear weapons activism.
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On January 27,2011, Megan Rice was convicted of trespassing as the result of a protest against weaponized drones at Creech Air Force Base.
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Megan Rice was arrested in the 1990s at protests against torture at the US Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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Megan Rice became so known for her activism that the United States Department of Energy funded an oral history, to help understand her nuclear disarmament views.